"Memory then conceive to be nothing else but a Repository of Ideas formed partly by the Senses, but chiefly by the Soul it self: I say, partly by the Senses, because they are as it were the Collectors or Carriers of the Impressions made by Objects from without, delivering them to the Repository or Storehouse where they are to be used."
— Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford
Date
Read 1680-1681, published 1705
Metaphor
"Memory then conceive to be nothing else but a Repository of Ideas formed partly by the Senses, but chiefly by the Soul it self: I say, partly by the Senses, because they are as it were the Collectors or Carriers of the Impressions made by Objects from without, delivering them to the Repository or Storehouse where they are to be used."
Metaphor in Context
Memory then conceive to be nothing else but a Repository of Ideas formed partly by the Senses, but chiefly by the Soul it self: I say, partly by the Senses, because they are as it were the Collectors or Carriers of the Impressions made by Objects from without, delivering them to the Repository or Storehouse where they are to be used. Which Impressions being actual Motions, as I have plainly proved in the Explication of the Organ of the Eye, and the Operation of Light, those Motions conveyed to this Repository become Powers sufficient to effect such Formations of Ideas as the Soul does guide and direct them in: For I conceive no Idea can be really formed or stored up in this Repository, without the Directive and Archiectonical Power of the Soul; and the Actions or Impressions cease and fail without the concurrent Act of the Soul, which regulates and disposes of such Powers.
(p. 140)
(p. 140)
Provenance
Reading John W. Yolton, "As in a Looking-Glass: Perceptual Acquaintance in Eighteenth-Century Britain." Journal of the History of Ideas 40:2 (1979): 212-213.
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1705).
Text from The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke, M.D. S.R.S. Geom. Prof. Gresh. &C. Containing His Cutlerian Lectures, and Other Discourses, Read at the Meetings of the Illustrious Royal Society. (London: Printed by Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford (printers to the Royal Society) at the Princes Arms in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1705). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Text from The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke, M.D. S.R.S. Geom. Prof. Gresh. &C. Containing His Cutlerian Lectures, and Other Discourses, Read at the Meetings of the Illustrious Royal Society. (London: Printed by Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford (printers to the Royal Society) at the Princes Arms in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1705). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/30/2014
